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Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" Approaches With New Tools

05-16-2013, 11:00 AM

Phoronix: Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" Approaches With New Tools

The first release candidate of the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 15 distribution is now available. Linux Mint 15 incorporates the latest MATE and Cinnamon desktop improvements along with offering their Linux desktop users some new tools...

I'm still very unimpressed with cinnamon. It seems very sluggish on decent hardware compared to gnome 3.6 or gnome 3.8, although its memory usage is significantly better for some reason.

It still has some very basic polish issues that should have been addressed long ago, such as the window list applet going offscreen with long window titles or too many windows. I still don't like the cinnamon menu at all (but at least they've made it less sluggish to open), it just seems like the most mediocre "start menu" implementation i've ever seen.

They have done a very good job with the nemo file manager though, the UI is very nice and they've restored a lot of removed nautilus features. The new software sources tool is also very nice.

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I'm still very unimpressed with cinnamon. It seems very sluggish on decent hardware compared to gnome 3.6 or gnome 3.8, although its memory usage is significantly better for some reason.

It still has some very basic polish issues that should have been addressed long ago, such as the window list applet going offscreen with long window titles or too many windows. I still don't like the cinnamon menu at all (but at least they've made it less sluggish to open), it just seems like the most mediocre "start menu" implementation i've ever seen.

They have done a very good job with the nemo file manager though, the UI is very nice and they've restored a lot of removed nautilus features. The new software sources tool is also very nice.

The start menu is a little sluggish but other than that cinnamon is the only DE that I like. If it weren't for cinnamon I probably would switch to OSX. So it seems that DEs are just a matter of personal preference.